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[OneMountainAcres]

Anyone else get a whole bunch of snow today! It snowed like ALL day. At one point it was a full on blizzard at one point. But luckily none stayed!

Yup :/ I almost cried. I'm so glad it melted but seriously? It's almost May!

 

[LittleMissPurdy]

don't forget to start basil this year, mine are coming up pretty nice, two kinds this year, won't be long before i have to transplant

i have started some seeds ..about 3 weeks ago...the basil is popping up now..looks good..hoping it won't keel-over though..
i don't know what issue i am having with the broccoli & cauliflower, but they get to a certain point then just die...i have used sphagnum good potting soil, mixed in some perilght and even some root food...oh and added cinnamon for the mold thing..
so, i have no idea what the issue is...otherwise everything else is doing fine...we are going to be getting some plants from the Amish green house next week..Todd will be home for a spell & I want him to help..not that i couldn't pick'em out myself, but it is more fun with company

...i am so excited about just getting this garden started!..
am disappointed our extending plans/projects are put on hold, but at least i can do this for now...besides, it will be awhile till i have to really "do" anything with the plants once they are in initially...it's all good.
I have a few other recipes that call for basil in them...will share them if you would like...if anyone else is interested..give a shout out and I'll just post them up for all to partake

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[LittleMissPurdy]

Yup

I almost cried. I'm so glad it melted but seriously? It's almost May!

hahahaha...being later with the garden is kinda working to my advantage this year...i would have had to cover that thing way too many times. Was wathing the radar..it is showing "blue" over us right now, but nothing is out there...it can stay in those clouds!! No more snow...we should start a picket line...think that will work?!

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[ChcknNurse]

theres no way to guarantee fertility, even to ask that question is rediculous...

I'm pretty new. I understand now that this question is ridiculous. However, before I started researching chickens, this would seem like a fair question-- just FYI. Plus, my friend got her eggs from a hatchery, they told her they would replace any eggs that didn't vein by day 9. Idk if this guy is local, but the decision to replace would be yours. Since you are asking, seems likely he just doesn't know that you would not know positively, that an egg was fertile when you handed it over to him. However, as your recent experience shows, certainly they should be.

Before deciding to get chickens, my husband thought that all eggs were fertile or they wouldn't have developed into eggs (not the first time I've heard this). I had always thought when eggs were candled, prior to incubation, you would know whether or not they were fertile. So, there is a lot of misunderstanding out there. Perhaps you can just explain and he will get it. You aren't asking a lot for your eggs, for sure. I paid $20 for 8 eggs locally.

 

[eeverett]

Thanks for your thoughts!

 

[OneMountainAcres]

hahahaha...being later with the garden is kinda working to my advantage this year...i would have had to cover that thing way too many times. Was wathing the radar..it is showing "blue" over us right now, but nothing is out there...it can stay in those clouds!! No more snow...we should start a picket line...think that will work?! ..

I would picket against the snow. .... if I didn't get so cold (Even just thinking about it!).

we started our seeds for our garden a few weeks ago and our little greenhouse in the kitchen is booming BUT these plants are going to need to go out soon. My husband for done reason started some pumpkin and squash asking with the tomatoes and peepers and they are stretching out of the greenhouse and towards my lemon trees! I want to get this stuff out in the garden ASAP but mother nature isn't cooperating. We cut down a few trees and the one is still laying right across our garden area. Since it won't stop raining (and snowing) we haven't been able to get out there to cut it up.

 

[18angovem]

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Yeah, the guy at the local nursery said not to plant anything in the ground until at least may 1st.

 

[ChcknNurse]

Need some advice.

So I want to transition my 2 week chicks over to chicken nipple waterers. Frequent changing and cleaning of the waters fouled with shavings, poop and feed is no fun. Should I just remove the other waterers when I hang the nipple waterers? I'm worried about our chicks learning how to use the nipple waterers and more importantly getting enough to drink. Please advise...

I'm not sure which forum it was, but the top advice was to introduce (touch the beak to the water) and then remove other sources of water. As I'm new and paranoid, I put the bottle with the poultry nipple in the bin, touched each beak to it for a drip of water... then paranoid they weren't drinking it, allowed the dish of water to remain for another week... finally pulled the dish and waited half a day ... ready to rescue them if they didn't catch on

. Then, I heard one hit the nipple and it was music to my ears! When we got 6 other chicks 2 wks later, I got a little paranoid again. However, when they were together, the new ones learned from the older ones. Hoooraaaayy! They will learn.

 

[chippysmom327]

Need a little help here. One of my albino chicks has weird, pimpley things on it's (if it were a human) groin area. I can't get that good of a picture by myself, but they almost look like those pictures of hen's ovaries with all the little teeny yolks on them. It also looks kinda like blisters...

Maybe he scratched himself a little too hard and it got infected?

I'm probably gonna put some betadine on it, but I don't know if I should try to puncture them or what.

Anyone have any insight?

The skin does not look red or irritated, I would just keep an eye on it for now

Okay, Thanks!

Need a little help here. One of my albino chicks has weird, pimpley things on it's (if it were a human) groin area. I can't get that good of a picture by myself, but they almost look like those pictures of hen's ovaries with all the little teeny yolks on them. It also looks kinda like blisters...

Maybe he scratched himself a little too hard and it got infected?

I'm probably gonna put some betadine on it, but I don't know if I should try to puncture them or what.

Anyone have any insight?

If that hatched out of one of my eggs, I want pictures! Just trying to figure out what combination made it.

I have tons, I'll PM you them

 

[LittleMissPurdy]

I would picket against the snow. .... if I didn't get so cold (Even just thinking about it!).

we started our seeds for our garden a few weeks ago and our little greenhouse in the kitchen is booming BUT these plants are going to need to go out soon. My husband for done reason started some pumpkin and squash asking with the tomatoes and peepers and they are stretching out of the greenhouse and towards my lemon trees! I want to get this stuff out in the garden ASAP but mother nature isn't cooperating. We cut down a few trees and the one is still laying right across our garden area. Since it won't stop raining (and snowing) we haven't been able to get out there to cut it up.

I feel your pain...April is always an uncertain time/month...my seeds aren't that big..yet. It doesn't take long for squash to get out of hand...ahhaha, I have started watermelon/cantaloupe/pumpkins of all sizes, green & yellow squash, they are still small...we realistically should not be planting outdoors until mid-May...to be sure we are frost/freeze free...we have hot boxes to utilize..if the plants get too big to be inside...it will work out, Mother nature just has to get with the program..so, you go ahead and tell her...

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Quote: we have planted in April before, just had to cover quite a bit...we are just at the point now now...we will wait, i have enough to do..don't need to worry about getting plants covered and un-covered every other day..it just becomes a real pain...someone told us once that a good time to plant here is when they open up swimming pools...when is that?..like Memorial Day..25th?.....
I think we will have the plants in no-later than the second weekend in May...I don't think I will have to cover too much by then...I better not have too..geesh

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